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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:9281
AUTHOR:Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533–1592)
QUOTATION:Plato says, “’T is to no purpose for a sober man to knock at the door of the Muses;” and Aristotle says “that no excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of folly.” 1
ATTRIBUTION:Book ii. Chap. ii. Of Drunkenness.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
See Dryden, Quotation 5. [back]
 

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